Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The 71000 Trust are looking forward to a number of other interesting activities during the latter half of 1992 . |
2 | St Ives last week reported pretax profits of £10.5m for the half year ended 29th January 1993 , an increase of 4.1% over the same period last year . |
3 | Indeed , Britain 's forthcoming presidency of the European Commission might be used as an opportunity for the more dirigiste members of Mr Major 's staff to press for a move to the narrow band of the ERM , in which case interest rates must be locked into those of Germany . |
4 | Alejandro and his son all stop horses with five-inch curbs and send them on with spurs about the same length . |
5 | They compared the average mispricing in the near contract during the stock exchange account which included the delivery date , with that in the next near contract for the same period , and with that for the near contract in previous stock exchange accounts . |
6 | John Cunningham in ‘ The Guardian ’ , referring to coverage of the mortar bomb attack on Whitehall wrote : ‘ Whitehall 's scariest 60 minutes proved to be one of radio 's finest hours , effortlessly making the case for an all news channel ’ . |
7 | This is associated with a reduction of freedom for the former group and increasing personal access to motorised transport for the latter . |
8 | Jean Goodwin presented a £300 cheque to Dr. Bathall for Cardiac Support Group , and Heather Trimming presented a cheque for the same amount to Mrs. Todd for the Alton branch of Sight Concern Hampshire . |
9 | Orwell 's point can be extended , since these writers recognized not only the dissolution of public or social values but also the bankruptcy of private ones : it ought to be remembered that the notion of " personality " reached its apogee in Oscar Wilde during the same period of scientific and social optimism . |
10 | Progress towards political diversity under Vietnam 's , primarily economic , Doi Moi or " rejuvenation " campaign [ see p. 36696 ] suffered a number of setbacks during the latter half of 1989 , as CPV leaders reacted with some unease at the trend towards pluralism among their communist allies in Eastern Europe . |
11 | Not surprisingly , Ali is chosen by most boxers as the most proto typical figure , though Bunny Johnson cites Jack Johnson and many of the newer recruits to boxing look to Sugar Ray Leonard , the quick-fisted American multiple world champion who blazed his way from an Olympic gold medal at Montreal in 1976 to an estimated 30 million dollars by the end of 1981 . |
12 | Abbreviations : If you regularly have to take notes about the same subject , you should find it quite easy to develop your own abbreviations which will make you able to take those notes even more quickly . |
13 | Only a week ago , she had stood in their butcher 's shop and-completely demolished the reputation of young Carrie Davidson for the same thing : having to get married . |
14 | The Essex Gliding Club 's plans for the former bomber station at Ridgewell near Clare , due to be discussed by Braintree planner on March 29 , have aroused unprecedented opposition among residents . |
15 | I joined an evening political group in Bermondsey and listened , with five other people and a dog to Miss Ellen Wilkinson 's plea for no more steel to be sold to Germany . |
16 | Of particular interest will be the information that : 1 ) Michael Smurfit subscribed for £500,000 ( and not £100,000 as reported elsewhere ) shares in UPH , the company that first acquired the site from the liquidator ; 2 ) Larry Goodman is also a shareholder in UPH through Paribas ; 3 ) John Finnegan , the principal in Finnegan Menton , was an advisory in the original sale to UPH ( at £4.4m ) and to Telecom ( at £9.4m ) only 17 months later ; 4 ) The site had been offered to other property developers by Finnegan Menton at £2.7m in 1988 ; 5 ) The sale to the so-called European consortium , i.e. Noel Smyth 's friends , ( at £6.75m ) was only fully concluded days before Telecom paid over £9.4m for the same site ; 6 ) The bank behind the Smyth/Doherty consortium in Ansbacher Bank . |
17 | A T E , A T R at the university and just , the block , the side of the university , she had her apartment for a little time . |
18 | If you already pay your employee any money while she receives SMP , for example , occupational maternity pay , this will count towards your SMP payment for the same week . |
19 | Planting in 1988 came within 15 per cent of the national target , but has fallen now to one-third of that level for the same cost to the taxpayer as in 1988 . |
20 | In northern Europe , however , factors such as population growth , urbanisation and industrialisation during the latter half of the nineteenth century produced a gradual change of heart , although the initial move towards the idea of protecting natural wilderness was encouraged primarily by European sportsmen who became concerned by the diminishing herds of game animals in the colonies ( MacKenzie , 1989 ) . |
21 | Evidently , different dictionaries can provide quite different definitions for the same word . |
22 | A grim Panorama programme on BBC television on May 17th highlighted the problems of Britain 's increasingly insecure workforce : milkmen working longer hours for the same money , CD stackers sacked just before the two years after which their jobs would be legally protected , betting-shop workers thrown out if they refuse to work evenings . |
23 | Market demand for it has been much higher than expected and there is n't the manufacturing capacity to build both four and five-speeds for the same application . |
24 | THIS amazing vehicle is an idea from FORD for a less oil dependent future . |
25 | ON THE RIGHT BERNARD DURING THE SAME VISIT . |
26 | I now suggest that the new Government should immediately sell the building for the same price so that it can become a seat of learning for talented Scottish children , such as it then produced of every walk of life . |
27 | He wrote a Prologue and ‘ The Song of the Wreck ’ for Wilkie Collins 's The Lighthouse , 1855 , and a Prologue for the same author 's The Frozen Deep , 1856 . |
28 | Various Grand Met managers and executives now take the Institute of Chartered Secretaries ’ exams for the same reason that I did . |
29 | He was returned in November for Rye instead , and was also elected to the 1679 Parliament for the same seat . |
30 | ( Hawks wear bells for the same reason as mountain cattle — so you can hear them when you ca n't see them . ) |